If you're asking for the rationale behind the EU charger harmonisation, it's waste. If every device uses the same charger then fewer chargers have to be manufactured and ultimately recycled. For example you never have to go out and buy a "spare" charger for your smartphone to keep at the office, or a replacement for the one you left behind on holiday, if you already have four mutually intercompatible chargers that originally came with different products.
Of course whether that rationale makes any sense is up for debate but that's the logic.
Unlike the Dock which contained a whole load of dedicated video and audio connectors, the Lightning connector's just an 8-pin connector that gets its video and docking capability from sending a digital stream that's interpreted further down the line. There's no a lot that Lightning can do that microUSB can't do by a similar system such as MHL.
So for every 100,000 apps (all apps, if I'm reading that right) on Android, there's one that is able to breach security? Just how few apps does Android have that this is a good figure?;)
I dunno, for the areas where compute performance matters the most - i.e. games - I find that there's a lot of parity between the software ranges on Android and iOS, so there's a lot of reasons to compare across ecosystems. I'm an iOS owner now and I'm being swayed by the choice between a Nexus that's guaranteed to have top of the line specs and therefore a long gaming life ahead of it, or paying the same money for a rather crusty older-model iPhone.
Given that the devices are operating outside their normal thermal performance envelope, probably it runs for about as long as it takes to do a few benchmarks then the device shuts down from overheating.
The idea that people should have to come up with less-reliable, improvised tests because the hardware manufacturers are going to crawl over each other to cheat any consistent, scientific one is kind of depressing. You kind of know that all these phone companies are first-rate bullshit artists, with Samsung running at the fore, but the idea even that their engineers are going out of their way to fake their product to the top of the specs pile is just sad.
The discrepancy is deliberate. For a long, long time drive capacity was quoted in the same units that the computer used for storage: binary SI prefixes, not decimal ones. The change to "1 megabyte = 1 million bytes" didn't set in until the 2000s.
Kudos to Apple for making their specs and their OS use consistent units, but it's still a marketing bullshit decision.
You want something that's consistent and reliable from device to device and run to run; that consistency dooms any attempt to cloak the behaviour of the app to failure.
That's just the business end. If you actually read the article, you'd know that the whole buoy-shaped contraption at the top of the page is the robot; it uses a camera to identify jellyfish and plots its own path to efficiently patrol through the swarm. It's an impressive computer vision and AI achievement.
It's funny that the number of iPhones those analysts claim Apple really sold, is exactly the same as the amount of iPhones they blind-ass-guessed would sell before the sales figures came out. It's almost like they were trying to defend their original estimates and therefore their reputations as analysts.
Nobody cares about the benchmarks quantitatively, but when you're putting down something like $700 on a computing device getting something that's "the fastest" is a big driver of decisions. I'm sure that guaranteeing a bunch of "Samsung Galaxy blah takes performance crown from Apple iPhone whatevs" stories in the tech press on the basis of a 0.5% difference in the Zootybench score is exactly why Samsung does this crap.
The performance quoted simply is not available to apps that are not on a whitelist of benchmark applications. It literally does not represent any part of the phone's non-benchmarking performance.
So, if I edit it into a nonsensible, illegible mish-mash where neither story nor music exist any more, it'd be OK? Shouldn't US commercials solve that then?
Income tax in the US is voluntary in the sense that income tax in the UK is involuntary: you file your tax returns and square up with the government, while our taxes are calculated and settled for us. That doesn't mean that the underlying obligation to pay the taxes you are responsible for is obviated, just that you volunteer to do the work.
How does copyright work in a relativistic universe, anyway? In whose reference frame do we count the passage of time? Does the clock start when the original is created, or when I enter the light cone of the creation of the original?
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If you're asking for the rationale behind the EU charger harmonisation, it's waste. If every device uses the same charger then fewer chargers have to be manufactured and ultimately recycled. For example you never have to go out and buy a "spare" charger for your smartphone to keep at the office, or a replacement for the one you left behind on holiday, if you already have four mutually intercompatible chargers that originally came with different products.
Of course whether that rationale makes any sense is up for debate but that's the logic.
Unlike the Dock which contained a whole load of dedicated video and audio connectors, the Lightning connector's just an 8-pin connector that gets its video and docking capability from sending a digital stream that's interpreted further down the line. There's no a lot that Lightning can do that microUSB can't do by a similar system such as MHL.
I was referring to the news article linked in the summary. The original research article is just for flavour.
And yet, we see iPhone-Android benchmark comparisons quite frequently.
So for every 100,000 apps (all apps, if I'm reading that right) on Android, there's one that is able to breach security? Just how few apps does Android have that this is a good figure? ;)
Sold.
I dunno, for the areas where compute performance matters the most - i.e. games - I find that there's a lot of parity between the software ranges on Android and iOS, so there's a lot of reasons to compare across ecosystems. I'm an iOS owner now and I'm being swayed by the choice between a Nexus that's guaranteed to have top of the line specs and therefore a long gaming life ahead of it, or paying the same money for a rather crusty older-model iPhone.
Actually aren't all alliterative articles an amazing achievement? After all, adding additional "As" always advances adversity.
Given that the devices are operating outside their normal thermal performance envelope, probably it runs for about as long as it takes to do a few benchmarks then the device shuts down from overheating.
I was asking: what difference does it make that only Apple makes iOS devices, when those devices run the same benchmarks as anyone else?
You seem to have answered another question entirely.
The idea that people should have to come up with less-reliable, improvised tests because the hardware manufacturers are going to crawl over each other to cheat any consistent, scientific one is kind of depressing. You kind of know that all these phone companies are first-rate bullshit artists, with Samsung running at the fore, but the idea even that their engineers are going out of their way to fake their product to the top of the specs pile is just sad.
The discrepancy is deliberate. For a long, long time drive capacity was quoted in the same units that the computer used for storage: binary SI prefixes, not decimal ones. The change to "1 megabyte = 1 million bytes" didn't set in until the 2000s.
Kudos to Apple for making their specs and their OS use consistent units, but it's still a marketing bullshit decision.
You want something that's consistent and reliable from device to device and run to run; that consistency dooms any attempt to cloak the behaviour of the app to failure.
That's just the business end. If you actually read the article, you'd know that the whole buoy-shaped contraption at the top of the page is the robot; it uses a camera to identify jellyfish and plots its own path to efficiently patrol through the swarm. It's an impressive computer vision and AI achievement.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37374-9_38
It's funny that the number of iPhones those analysts claim Apple really sold, is exactly the same as the amount of iPhones they blind-ass-guessed would sell before the sales figures came out. It's almost like they were trying to defend their original estimates and therefore their reputations as analysts.
There are cross-platform benchmarks comparing performance across different phone OSes; it would be in Apple's best interests to cheat on those.
I'm not sure that your argument makes any sense.
"You cheated. You copied the answer key."
"I did the whole test, though!"
Nobody cares about the benchmarks quantitatively, but when you're putting down something like $700 on a computing device getting something that's "the fastest" is a big driver of decisions. I'm sure that guaranteeing a bunch of "Samsung Galaxy blah takes performance crown from Apple iPhone whatevs" stories in the tech press on the basis of a 0.5% difference in the Zootybench score is exactly why Samsung does this crap.
What difference does that make?
The performance quoted simply is not available to apps that are not on a whitelist of benchmark applications. It literally does not represent any part of the phone's non-benchmarking performance.
Yes, I'm sure it's all lies where it conflicts with $priorbeliefs.
It's a time shift. Just a really, really long one.
So, if I edit it into a nonsensible, illegible mish-mash where neither story nor music exist any more, it'd be OK? Shouldn't US commercials solve that then?
Income tax in the US is voluntary in the sense that income tax in the UK is involuntary: you file your tax returns and square up with the government, while our taxes are calculated and settled for us. That doesn't mean that the underlying obligation to pay the taxes you are responsible for is obviated, just that you volunteer to do the work.
How does copyright work in a relativistic universe, anyway? In whose reference frame do we count the passage of time? Does the clock start when the original is created, or when I enter the light cone of the creation of the original?